Arash
Abizadeh
Arash is an Iranian-Canadian disciple of Jean-Jacques Rousseau who
teaches Political Science at Wesleyan University.
A
Very Uncivil Society: Religious Repression in Iran
Sasha
Abramsky
Balliol
graduate currently studying for a degree in calculated cynicism in
New York. He feels that America could be a truly wonderful place if
only there weren't so many armadillos hanging around on Route 66 just
waiting to be run over whenever he goes on a road trip. Other than
that, he has nothing to complain about in his particular new world.
His book,
Hard Time Blues, has just been published by St Martin's Press
in the United States (it is reviewed in the Turtle here)
and his new website has been launched at www.sashabramsky.com.
A
Letter from America
A Tale of Four Wars
Richard
Adams
A former
sports correspondent for the Timaru Herald, Richard is now a journalist
on The Guardian,
where he writes the City Diary. His ferocious ambition is tempered
only by lack of talent.
Dobbo
- My (Insignificant) Part in His Downfall
Harry Potter and the
Closet Conservative
Anne
Alexander
Anne
is a militant Socialist Worker.
A
Brief People's History of Egypt [with Dave Renton]
Taiaiake
Alfred
Taiaiake
Alfred writes on indigenous peoples' affairs and teaches at the University
of Victoria. You can read more about him here.
Don't
Lose Sight of the Real Battle
John
Armstrong
John has
a Ph.D. in maths from Wadham
College, Oxford, having cracked a complex sum. He once had plans
for a current affairs spoof entitled "John's Craven Newsround",
but is now working in Information Technology for a Bank.
Rajeev
Balasubramanyam
Rajeev,
the winner of the 1999 Betty Trask Award, was recently teaching Marxist
economics at a rather exclusive private school in Kathmandu.
Living
WIth The Whites
Walden
Bello
Walden teaches
at the University of
the Philippines and is the director of Focus on the Global South.
Asian
Financial Crisis: The Movie
Pat
Bennett
Pat is a
free-lance writer living on the very edge of civilization in the wilderness
area of Longworth, British Columbia, Canada. She's been writing professionally
for the past twenty-plus years: columns, articles, stories, poems, etc.
Maverick
Medleys: Street Songs after Quebec City
The Dogs of War
Jeremy
Benson
Jeremy is a civil servant at the Department for Education and
Employment. He used to have something to do with nurseries, but that was a while ago.
David
Bleakney
David Bleakney
is a Canadian Postal Worker and musician.
Bono
Bloody Bono
Patrick
Bond
Patrick
Bond teaches political economy at the University of the Witwatersrand
in South Africa
Zimbabwe's
Rip-Off Poll [with Raj Patel]
Joe
Bord
A keen Young
Fabian, Joe is getting round to doing his Ph.D. at Trinity
College, Cambridge, after a spell at Balliol College, Oxford, where he ran the Left Caucus. He is now taking a look at the Whigs and the sciences in the early nineteenth century.
The English Patient
The Human Stain
A Curious Incident
Move Along Now
Taking the Temperature
Poverty, Liquidity and Demand
Naima
Bouteldja
Naima is a French-Algerian activist
Except,
of course, Mrs Thatcher
An Interview with Susan George
The Wrong ATTAC?
Andrew
Brennand
Having once
worked for Eidos of Tomb Raider
fame, Andrew has now sold his labour-power to a large mobile phone
company.
Caroline
Brooke
Caroline
teaches modern European history at Queen
Mary and Westfield College, London, and knows a lot about Bolshevism.
She was Stakhanovite of the Month
in May 1999, and her Words for the Turtle have been translated into
Russian here.
What
Shall We Tell the Children?
Leonid Brezhnev: You Are Always
With Us! [with Vitalii Trukhan]
We Know Him! We Believe
Him! A Note on Politics in Kazakhstan
Seeing Like A State
Chris
Brooke
Chris Brooke
teaches Politics at Magdalen College, Oxford. He is an Editor of
the Turtle, and his website is here.
The
Tainted Source
Hitler: 1889-1936: Hubris
Italy, Europe, the Left
This Blessed Plot
Anderson
Country
Kosovo:
A Short History
Fascism: Theory and Practice
Seeing Like A State
Michael
Brooke
Mike works
for the British Film Institute and writes reviews for the DVD
Times. His debut contribution to Sight & Sound
appears in the August 2002 issue, accompanied by a colour picture
of a severed pig's head.
Terry
Cantwell
Terry is
a poet who lives in Australia.
Them
Aziz
Choudry
Aziz is
based in Aotearoa / New Zealand and is organiser for GATT Watchdog,
who were once dubbed grumpy geriatric communists who tuck their shirts
into their underpants by former New Zealand politician-turned-WTO
Director General Mike Moore.
He is the
Turtle's Stakhanovite of the
Month for November 2001.
Bringing
It All Back Home: Anti-globalisation and Colonial Realities
Prising Open the Pacific
Suspicious Minds
Advance Australia Fair?
Whose Beat Should We Dance To?
Lucky Country
Kate
Collier
Kate is
writing a Ph.D. at Birmingham
University on the means by which mass politics was conducted on
the Ghana-Togo border in the 1950s.
Josephine
Crawley Quinn
When she
isn't taking back San Francisco, Josephine studies Ancient History
at UC Berkeley,
where she applies Queer Theory to the Ancient Greeks and thinks about
trouser-clad barbarians. She is the Turtle's Poetry Commissar, and
her webpage is here.
Misconceptions
Francisco
Javier Cubero
Francisco
Javier Cubero is from Barcelona, and is currently completing his first
poetry anthology. He is also trying to return to the academy, but
Spain's draconian rules about people who are older than 25 going back
for undergraduate degrees makes this hard. He first went to school
when Franco was still alive, when it was illegal to teach in Catalan.
Fascism
and Complicity [with Bob Torres]
Ben
Dalby
Ben works
in computers, but his real talents lie elsewhere. Click here
and here
to download a couple of his songs in MP3 format.
Palash
Davé
Palash directed
Hitch Hike, a Channel Four documentary about Christopher Hitchens
(which he wrote about in The
Guardian). He is the Turtle's Film and Theatre Commissar.
No
Logo
Diane
di Prima
Diane di
Prima is a poet. She lives in San Francisco.
Revolutionary
Letter #1
Revolutionary Letter #9
Revolutionary Letter #18
Revolutionary Letter #26
Revolutionary Letter #49
Kelly
Dietz
Kelly Dietz
works with Ainu communities in Japan fighting for rights and recognition.
She enjoys smashing the system, reading, and tap dancing. She doesn't
enjoy being a graduate student in sociology at Cornell, because everyone
is so damn right wing.
'Criminal
and Unjustifiable': Reflections on State Power in Durban
Radha
D'Souza
Radha D'Souza
is an activist in New Zealand.
Global
Commons: But Where is the Community?
Paul
Dundon
Formerly
an Earthquake Predictor, Paul writes code and lives in Manchester.
His magnificent work on the Code of the Turtle earned him the coveted
Stakahnovite of the Month
title for September 2001.
No
Logo
Peter
Dwyer
Peter Dwyer
is a former crap amateur boxer, Anfield Road Ender who felt no shame
in 'running' and was on the fringes of the NF; having seen the light,
or something functionally equivalent, he is now disposed to bisexuality,
vegetarianism and loony leftiness, although currently undergoing therapy
with AWGA ('Away Game' Annoymous). He figths for meagre office space
at the University of East Anglia.
Is
it Something in the Whine?
Mark
Engler
Mark Engler
is an independent writer and activist from Des Moines, Iowa. He has
previously worked with the Arias Foundation for Peace and Human Progress
in San Jose, Costa Rica, as well as the Public Intellectuals Program
at Florida Atlantic University.
Bush
Brewing Poverty and Violence in El Salvador
Marching for a Global Peace
Shereen
Essof
Shereen
works at the African Gender
Institute and wishes the Turtle weren't such an old boys club.
A
Letter from Johannesburg
Ben
Fender
Ben -- ahem,
Comrade Fung -- can now say "Rightist Deviationist" in several
different ways in Mandarin Chinese. He is the Founder of the Turtle,
and lives in Beijing.
Remembrance
of Turtles Past
Michaele
Ferguson
Michaele,
of Idaho Falls, Idaho, is working on a Ph.D. dissertation at Harvard
that will push back the frontiers of feminist theory by showing in
painstaking detail why The World Needs More Canada. She lives in Bellevue,
near Seattle, and her own webpage is here.
A
Tribute to Newt: the Fridge Poetry of the Turtle
Chris
Fisch
Chris Fisch,
an artist and traveller, is currently bedridden in Vienna.
72
Hours in Prague
Brian
Glenn
Brian, a
New Englander, is writing a D.Phil thesis at St. Anthony's College, Oxford, on the Political
Science of the Insurance Industry. But it is more interesting than
it sounds. His webpage is here.
Seeing
Like A State
Leland
Glenna
Leland Glenna
is a lecturer in the Rural
Sociology department at Cornell University. His research and teaching
interests include environment and society, sustainable development,
and agricultural biotechnology.
On
Grassroots Postmodernism
Binnie
Goh
Binnie is
a legal adviser at HM Treasury. She is specialising in discrimination
law and is working on anti-discrimination law for transsexuals. Sadly,
Binnie has blown her chances of reaching the higher echelons of the
civil service by treading on her previous Secretary of State's guide
dog.
Dan
Gordon
Dan was
once Lincoln College
JCR Shop Rep, and has just finished writing his Ph.D. thesis on the
French New Left at Sussex
University.
Soggy
Consensuses, National-Republicans & Neo-Bolsheviks
Uri
Gordon
Uri used
to serve in the Israeli Defence Force. Then he got better, and is
now a graduate student at Mansfield College, Oxford, where he works
on the ideology of the anti-globalisation movement.
The
Future Begins Now!
Some Thoughts on the Immediate
Future of Anti-Capitalist Activism
Alex
Grant!
Improbable
and delightful in equal measure, though a little too sympathetic to
the Government of the day, Alex is a Labour member of Greenwich Council
(pictured here!) and is a senior reporter on Printing
World magazine.
Beyond
Our Ken: Reflections on the Mayoral Race
Joe
Guinan
Comrade
Joe now lives in Washington DC. He works for the rather splendid National
Center for Economic and Security Alternatives, and is currently
writing a book on War and Political Economy with Gar Alperovitz.
Friederike
Habermann
Friederike is an historian,
an economist, and an activist, living in the wilderness of
northern Germany, where she is struggling with a dissertation on "Economic
Man and Otherness".
How
Much Will the Dollar Cost?
Buenos Aires Reportage
Doug
Henwood
Doug Henwood
is the editor of the Left Business Observer and author of Wall
Street: How it works and for whom. He lives in New York City.
Does
it Mean Anything to be a Leninist in 2001?
Cathy
Hume
After getting
a degree in mediaeval English, Cathy couldn't work out what to do
next, and ended up working at the Home Office.
Suffragette
City
Ryan
Ismert
A computer
wizard formerly at Cornell University's Telluride House, Ryan was Stakhanovite
of the Month in June 1999. He is living in London.
Sean
Jacobs
Sean Jacobs,
is a South African journalist and researcher completing his doctorate
in politics at Birkbeck College, London. He likes to listen to Abdullah
Ibrahim and The Roots
Young
Lions
Amandla! A Revolution
in Four-Part Harmony
Karel
Jenczek
Karel lives
in Prague and works with computers.
Three
Short Pieces About Rioting [with Ivan Vetvicka]
Philip
Kane
Philip Kane
is a writer, storyteller, Socialist Worker and anti-globalisation
activist. He is involved in the anti-capitalist arts group Movement
of the Imagination. His poems, stories and articles have appeared
in magazines and anthologies, and his books include City's Little
Heart (Mezzanine, 1994), The Wildwood King (Capall Bann,
1997) and the poem-sequence Tarot (Mezzanine, 2000). He was
an editor of the North Kent anthology, The Industry of Letters
(Mezzanine/KCC, 1996). A new collection of poetry and short prose
pieces, Mars Rising, is due for publication in November 2001.
Somebody
Gave Me A Dog
Trevor
Landers
Trevor Landers
is a Lecturer in Communication at The Open Polytechnic of New Zealand.
He has just returned from a teaching stint in at the Univeritatei
de Vest, Timisoara, Romania for the 'love of marxism and a loaf of
bread'. His poetry has been widely published in New Zealand and has
been critically acclaimed overseas.
The
Tragedy of Romanian Railway Stations II
Socialist Laundry
Anti-Multinational Hypertext
Poem
Our Society is Too Conformist
Rite
de passage (Kabul 2002)
Vientiniane People's Song
Brendan
Larvor
Brendan
(pictured here) is now teaching philosophy at the University of Hertfordshire.
His book on Lakatos can be bought at your local bookshop.
Boot:
A Quality-Assured Allegory
Why the Election is So Dull
John
Lea
John teaches
criminology at Middlesex University. His webpage is here.
Socialism
or Barbarism
Mary
Leng
Mary will
soon become a Junior Research Fellow at St John's College, Cambridge.
Her web page is here.
Security
Efforts Praised
Peter
Lowe
Peter is
a budding academic with poetic leanings, writing a Ph.D. on T. S.
Eliot at Durham University. Peter was our Stakhanovite
of the Month for February 2000.
Ravelstein
Bruce Chatwin
An Equal Music
Habermas,
Lyotard? Either\Or, and\or Both/And?
Not Much Fun in Stalingrad
Thackeray
Anil's Ghost
Saul
Bellow's Herzog: A Plea for Confused Understanding
James
Mackintosh
Once an
ace reporter for the Gloucester Citizen, Mackie now works for
the Financial Times.
P.
J. McMahon
P. J. McMahon
lives in Ealing, where he divides his time between I.T. consultancy,
writing experimental fiction and playing with a vintage Fender Jaguar.
He thinks that Mid-West London is a much misunderstood (and criminally
neglected) part of the world: he, for one, would live nowhere else.
The
First Time I Ever Saw Kinnock
And the Other Labour Leaders?
I Never Met Jim Callaghan
The First Time I Ever Saw Michael
Foot
I Have Seen Tony Blair
The First Time I Ever Saw John
Smith
Other Centre-Left Intellectuals
I Have Met
Michael
Manville
Michael
Manville is an editor of Freezerbox
Magazine. His writing has appeared in a number of online and print
publications. He lives in Los Angeles.
This
is American History on Drugs
Martin
Meenagh
Modern Historian,
once a doctoral student at Balliol College, Oxford.
New
Labour's Britain
Kayte
Meola
Kayte Meola
is a graduate student of development sociology at Cornell University.
The
Heart of Globalisation
Dia
Mohan
Dia is a
doctoral student at Cornell University's Department
of Rural Sociology. She is currently working with liberation theatre
groups in rural Bengal, and plans world domination through a chain
of coffee, cake and fingerpainting shops.
The
Woman Who Mistook Herself For A Parrot
Dan
Moshenberg
Dan is an
Associate Professor of English and Women’s Studies at George
Washington University, and a founding member of the Tenants’
and Workers’ Support Committee of Northern Virginia. He edits
Prisons/Literacies/Cultures
[P/L/C] Special Series of PRE/TEXT: A Journal of Rhetorical Theory,
writes a great deal, has translated Paul Virilio’s Lost Dimension
(1991, (Semiotext(e))), and is so enamoured of the District of Columbia
that he'll be at the Centre for Higher Education
Development at the University of Cape Town from January through December
2003.
Symposium
on Empire
E.
Lovemore Moyo
E. Lovemore
Moyo is an activist and academic living in Harare, recently evicted
from a fine home because of the state of the garden.
Workers
Unnecessary in New Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe Elections: Unfree,
Unfair, Unsurprisingly
Marc
Mulholland
Having written
a book on Ulster Unionism in the 1960s, Marc Mulholland is now Fellow
in Modern History at St Catherine's College, Oxford.
The
IRA and its Enemies
The Irish Story
James
Murphy
Jobbing
intellectual James Murphy supports Kilmarnock FC and runs the Model
Reasoning consultancy, which is distinguished by its monthly book review column. He lives in North London
and used to eat a lot at the excellent though now sadly-defunct Indian Lancer.
Jim has
been awarded the Turtle's Title, Menshevik of the Millennium, for
his services to revisionism!
An
Interview with Hugh O'Shaughnessy
Peace & Plenty: a
desultory philippic
No Logo
Bowling Alone
The NHS: Time to Let Go
Yanick
Noiseux
Yanick is
a freelance journalist who has spent the last two years living and
studying the informal economy in Mexico City. He has published articles
at the Quebec Alternative Media Center,
and will be starting a Ph.D. course in Sociology at Quebec's University
in Montreal (UQAM) in January 2002.
A
Wolf in Fox's Clothing: What's Going On in the Informal Sector in
Mexico?
Martin
O'Neill
When he
isn't slumming it and writing about matters of which he knows nothing,
Martin enjoys thinking and writing about responsibility, selfhood
and equality. Having finally left Oxford, he is now in the Philosophy Department at Harvard. Martin was
Stakhanovite of the Month in March
1999, and subsequently elected by acclamation to be the Turtle's Motorways
and Turnpikes Commissar. Martin's own webpage is here.
Modernism,
Motorways and Matchplay
A New Hampshire Diary:
Part One
Tear-Gas Memories: Dispatches
from the Front at Quebec City
Raj
Patel
Raj has recently finished his dissertation on resistance to everything in Zimbabwe, and has gone to work for Food First in Oakland, CA. He is a Co-Editor of the
Turtle, and his homepage is here.
Greenwashing
A Letter from Harare
Nervous Conditions
Who's Afraid of the PGA?
After Seattle
The Third Way in Bangkok
The Middle Classes Kid in DC
Boys in Suits
A Prague Quartet: 1: Schizophrenia
A Prague Quartet: 2: Amnesia
A Prague Quartet: 3: Nausea
A Prague Quartet: 4: Myopia
Sweet Dreams Are Made Of This
Policy, Distribution and
Poverty
No Logo
Knowledge, Power, Talking Monies
They Also Make Bombs out of Paper
Fiat Justitia et Pereat Mundus
Hard Time Blues:
How Politics Built a Prison Nation
What Does NEPAD Stand For?
Zimbabwe's Rip-Off Poll
[with Patrick Bond]
The Uses of Ali G
Prophets Without Honor: A Requiem for Moral Patriotism
Faulty Shades of Green
Petie
Petrovich grew up in the workers' stronghold of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
where he first learned about Bloody Sunday, the Diggers, Stephen
Biko, Medgar Evers, Joe Hill, Stonewall, Duppy Conquerors, and lots
of other things from popular music. He thinks there are plenty of
targets that are more worthwhile than Bono.
Bon
Mot for Bono
Oliver
Pooley Philosopher
of Space Time, Olly teaches philosophy at Exeter College, Oxford.
Steve
Pugh
Steve is
an accomplished socialist cybernaut and bankrolls the accumulation
of Star Trek paraphernalia through web work. Steve was Stakhanovite
of the Month for April 2000 for his sterling efforts on behalf
of the French Revolutionary Calendar. His web page is here.
All
Rights Reserved: Adventures in Copyright Theory
We weren't
sure what Luke was doing for many years. But it now turns out he's
finished his Ph.D. on embarrassment
and jealousy, and is the Director of Studies in Philosophy at
Peterhouse College, Cambridge. And there is an interesting photograph
of him on the web here.
Anne is
studying in the Program(me) in Ecological Anthropology in Yale University's
School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. She is quite interested
in Himalayan sewage.
Seeing
Like A State
The Turtle's
Music Maestro, Linnie manufactures webpages for the BBC and lives in Sheffield.
She is Stakhanovite
of the Month for May 2001. Her webpage is here.
Why
I Will Be Spoiling My Ballot Paper on 7th June
No Logo
Dave has
finished his Ph.D. and had three books published. He recently
moved to London to work for the TUC.
Dave was
the Stakhanovite of the Month
for October 1999. His webpage is here.
An
Intellectual Left?
The
Russian Revolution
Liberated
Continent? The South African Elections of 1999
Reflections on the Recent Elections
in Austria
In Memoriam: Tony Cliff, 1917-2000
Phil Neville, Sport and National
Decline
Out of Apathy
America: Online, Declining
and Fooled
A Brief People's History of
Egypt [with Anne Alexander]
Italy, My Italy!
Now the Bombings Have Begun
One, Two, Three and a Bit, Nazis
are a Piece of ...
Anarcho-Stalinism, Down With!
The
Rebel Girl
Andrew Reston
Andrew is a Fellow of
All Souls College, Oxford, where he reads Science Fiction and thinks
about Henry James.
No Logo
Pete Sarris
A Fellow of Trinity
College, Cambridge, who researches Byzantine agriculture.
Mikush Schwam-Baird
Mikush Schwam-Baird was
born in Israel and left when he two. Since then he’s been somewhat
homeless himself, living in New Orleans, Strasbourg, Jacksonville,
FL, and most recently in Ithaca, NY where he just completed a Bachelors
at Cornell in Literature, Theory, and Creative Writing. He now works
for the Service Employees International Union in Washington, DC.
He enjoys long walks on the beach and has a soft spot for good short
stories and global justice protests.
Joel
Schalit: Jerusalem Calling
Gamini Seneviratne
Gamini Seneviratne is
a retired civil servant from Sri Lanka. Throughout his career, he
was harrassed for his political beliefs. He has published three
collections of poetry, Twenty Five Poems, Another Selection
and traveling and a fourth, pseudonymously, Songs of Lanka.
Sitting Down
Sara Smith
Disciplining and Punishing somewhere...
George Speight
Not the George Speight who is involved in the current chaos in Fiji, our George Speight
recently left Nuffield College, Oxford, to go and work for
the Bank of England..
Amy Tabor
Amy Tabor is from Houston,
Texas. She is interested in mediaeval grammarians (Are words bodies?
Or are they merely modifications of air?), but studies in the inhospitable
surroundings of the University of Texas Law School.
Saint
Augustine
The Symbolic Species
Art
Toynbee
Art Toynbee, with homes
in London, Paris and Tokyo, remains committed to the belief that
property is theft.
The
Power Behind the Throne
Gwen Tressider
Gwen is a teacher in
London.
John Venice
By day John Venice works
for a conference organisation in London; by night he is a queer
dilettante.
No
Logo
Sarwat Viquar
Sarwat works with a range
of groups in Montreal, including the "No one is Illegal" campaign,
which defends the rights of immigrants and refugees, and argues
for an end to borders. She also works with various South Asian groups,
pm anti-communal work, focusing on the Gujarat pogrom.
Under the Shadow of the G8
David Walker
David bounces back and
forth between London and his native North-East. He is currently
teaching law and living in Streatham.
Hugh Wilkinson
We have no idea where
Hugh has got to. Sorry.
Joe Winkley
Joe is a solicitor with
Slaughter and May. We wonder whether he still
writes poetry.
J. Carter
Wood lives in Germany and has recently completed a doctoral dissertation
on attitudes to violence in nineteenth-century England for the University
of Maryland, College Park. In his spare time, he's desperately working
on a secret alchemical formula that turns style into substance.
High
Fidelity
Real Men: Reflections on Fight
Club
Star-Spangled Blather
Bastards in the White House
Dubya Won: No Way, Bud! Notes
on an Inauguration
Violence, Identity, Multiculturalism
Getting the Vapors
There'll Always Be An England?
Sim
Yarrow
Sim now
lives in South Africa, where he plays jazz music with Veterans of
Struggle.
A
Letter from Cape Town
